Common use of Management of the Commissioning Contract Clause in Contracts

Management of the Commissioning Contract. 3.1 During the term of the Commissioning Contract, to carry out those functions, rights or obligations attributed to the Co-ordinating Commissioner under the Commissioning Contract (subject to clause 7), including: managing Activity, including notifying the provider of Activity Planning Assumptions, monitoring Activity and reviewing Activity Reports, dealing with Activity Queries and Activity Management Meetings, and agreeing Activity Management Plans; implementing any Prior Approval Scheme agreeing Service Development and Improvement Plans and/or Data Quality Improvement Plans with the provider; agreeing Service Variations; agreeing information and reporting requirements, and managing Information Breaches agreeing Local Prices, managing agreements or proposals for Local Variations and Local Modifications, making and receiving payments (where Commissioners’ payments under the Commissioning Contract are aggregated), including CQUIN payments; agreeing Local Quality Requirements and Local Incentive Scheme Indicators, and variations to National CQUINs as applicable; implementing financial adjustments or sanctions resulting from breaches of any provider obligations including those relating to Activity Management Plans, Data Quality Improvement Plans and Service Development and Improvement Plans; managing complaints; the appointment of an auditor conducting Review Meetings, and undertaking contract management, including the issuing and receipt of Contract Performance Notices and agreeing any Remedial Action Plan or related contract management processes; Reporting under the Commissioning Contract Disseminating to each Commissioner relevant information provided by the Provider in respect of the Commissioning Contract, including in relation to: Monthly Activity Reports; Service Quality Performance Reports; reconciliations of payment against actual Activity, including allocations against individual Commissioners in respect of Activity and payment; reports under any Data Quality Improvement Plan or Service Development and Improvement Plan; contract management provisions including Contract Query Notices and Remedial Action Plans; any financial adjustments or sanctions in respect of the Services; proposed Variations, and any other information received from the Provider in relation to that Commissioner, or reasonably required by any Commissioner in respect of its Services. Providing such other relevant information to Commissioners in relation to the Commissioning Contract as agreed by the Commissioners. Termination, suspension and disputes Implementing the following actions on behalf of the Commissioners: initiating suspension of the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, following a Suspension Event; serving notice to terminate the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, in accordance with the terms of the Commissioning Contract; and initiating and conducting Dispute Resolution (unless in any case an individual Commissioner elects to initiate Dispute Resolution on its own account). Table of additional agreed Roles and Responsibilities in relation to the Commissioning Contract The Commissioners have agreed that the following additional roles, in relation to the Commissioning Contract, will be undertaken by individual Commissioners, as set out in this table: Table 1 Commissioner (Insert name of the CCG/ICB against each of the identified roles) Identified role (Co-ordinating Commissioner or Commissioner) Additional responsibilities Commissioning support agreements The roles and responsibilities agreed to be performed by any commissioning support organisation in respect of the Commissioning Contract are set out in the table below: Commissioning support organisation (Insert name of each organisation engaged, against each of the identified roles) Relevant Commissioner (Identify the Commissioner(s) responsible for engaging each organisation) Commissioning support organisation Roles and Responsibilities Agreed variations to this Agreement [Insert details of the agreed variation] Schedule 6 Collaborative Costs and Resources3 [Insert any arrangements agreed under Xxxxxx 11] 2 Commissioners may need to amend this paragraph if it is agreed that a different Commissioner is to manage the pre-contract process 3 Where Commissioners decide to bear their own costs in relation to the Collaborative under Clause 11, this Schedule can be deleted

Management of the Commissioning Contract. 3.1 During the term of the Commissioning Contract, to carry out those functions, rights or obligations attributed to the Co-ordinating Commissioner under the Commissioning Contract (subject to clause 7), including: managing Activity, including notifying the provider of Activity Planning Assumptions, monitoring Activity and reviewing Activity Reports, dealing with Activity Queries and Activity Management Meetings, and agreeing Activity Management Plans; implementing any Prior Approval Scheme agreeing Service Development and Improvement Plans and/or Data Quality Improvement Plans with the provider; agreeing Service Variations; agreeing information and reporting requirements, and managing Information Breaches agreeing Local Prices, managing agreements or proposals for Local Variations and Local Modifications, making and receiving payments (where Commissioners’ payments under the Commissioning Contract are aggregated), including CQUIN payments; agreeing Local Quality Requirements and Local Incentive Scheme Indicators, and variations to National CQUINs as applicable; implementing financial adjustments or sanctions resulting from breaches of any provider obligations including those relating to Activity Management Plans, Data Quality Improvement Plans and Service Development and Improvement Plans; managing complaints; the appointment of an auditor conducting Review Meetings, and undertaking contract management, including the issuing and receipt of Contract Performance Notices and agreeing any Remedial Action Plan or related contract management processes; Reporting under the Commissioning Contract Disseminating to each Commissioner relevant information provided by the Provider in respect of the Commissioning Contract, including in relation to: Monthly Activity Reports; Service Quality Performance Reports; reconciliations of payment against actual Activity, including allocations against individual Commissioners in respect of Activity and payment; reports under any Data Quality Improvement Plan or Service Development and Improvement Plan; contract management provisions including Contract Query Notices and Remedial Action Plans; any financial adjustments or sanctions in respect of the Services; proposed Variations, and any other information received from the Provider in relation to that Commissioner, or reasonably required by any Commissioner in respect of its Services. Providing such other relevant information to Commissioners in relation to the Commissioning Contract as agreed by the Commissioners. Termination, suspension and disputes Implementing the following actions on behalf of the Commissioners: initiating suspension of the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, following a Suspension Event; serving notice to terminate the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, in accordance with the terms of the Commissioning Contract; and initiating and conducting Dispute Resolution (unless in any case an individual Commissioner elects to initiate Dispute Resolution on its own account). Table of additional agreed Roles and Responsibilities in relation to the Commissioning Contract The Commissioners have agreed that the following additional roles, in relation to the each relevant Commissioning Contract, will be undertaken by individual Commissioners, as set out in this table: Table 1 Commissioner (Insert name of the CCG/ICB against each of the identified roles) Identified role (Co-ordinating Commissioner or Commissioner) Additional responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Commissioning support agreements The roles and responsibilities agreed to be performed by any commissioning support organisation in respect of the any Commissioning Contract are set out in the table below: Commissioning support organisation (Insert name of each organisation engaged, against each of the identified roles) Relevant Commissioner (Identify the Commissioner(s) responsible for engaging each organisation) Commissioning support organisation Roles and Responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Agreed variations to this Agreement [Insert details of the agreed variation] Schedule 6 Collaborative Costs and Resources3 [Insert any arrangements agreed under Xxxxxx 11] 2 This section is drafted on the basis that each Co-ordinating Commissioner will carry out these pre-contract roles for their respective Commissioning Contract. Commissioners may need to amend this paragraph if it is agreed that a different Commissioner is to manage the pre-contract process 3 Where Commissioners decide to bear their own costs in relation to the Collaborative under Clause 11, this Schedule can be deletedprocess.

Management of the Commissioning Contract. 3.1 During the term of the Commissioning Contract, to carry out those functions, rights or obligations attributed to the Co-ordinating Commissioner under the Commissioning Contract (subject to clause 7), including: managing Activity, including notifying the provider of Activity Planning Assumptions, monitoring Activity and reviewing Activity Reports, dealing with Activity Queries and Activity Management Meetings, and agreeing Activity Management Plans; implementing any Prior Approval Scheme agreeing Service Development and Improvement Plans and/or Data Quality Improvement Plans with the provider; agreeing Service Variations; agreeing information and reporting requirements, and managing Information Breaches agreeing Local Prices, managing agreements or proposals for Local Variations and Local Modifications, making and receiving payments (where Commissioners’ payments under the Commissioning Contract are aggregated), including CQUIN payments; agreeing Local Quality Requirements and Local Quality Incentive Scheme Indicators, and variations to National Sanctions and National CQUINs as applicable; implementing financial adjustments or sanctions resulting from breaches of any provider obligations including those relating to Activity Management Plans, Operational Standards, Data Quality Improvement Plans and Service Development and Quality Improvement Plans; managing complaints; the appointment of an auditor conducting Review Meetings, and undertaking contract management, including the issuing and of receipt of Contract Performance Notices Queries and agreeing any Remedial Action Plan or related contract management processes; Reporting under the Commissioning Contract Disseminating to each Commissioner relevant information provided by the Provider in respect of the Commissioning Contract, including in relation to: Monthly Activity Reports; Service Quality Performance Reports; reconciliations of payment against actual Activity, including allocations against individual Commissioners in respect of Activity and payment; reports under any Data Quality Improvement Plan or Service Development and Improvement Plan; contract management provisions including Contract Query Notices and Remedial Action Plans; any financial adjustments or sanctions in respect of the Services; proposed Variations, and any other information received from the Provider in relation to that Commissioner, or reasonably required by any Commissioner in respect of its Services. Providing such other relevant information to Commissioners in relation to the Commissioning Contract as agreed by the Commissioners. Termination, suspension and disputes Implementing the following actions on behalf of the Commissioners: initiating suspension of the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, following a Suspension Event; serving notice to terminate the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, in accordance with the terms of the Commissioning Contract; and initiating and conducting Dispute Resolution (unless in any case an individual Commissioner elects to initiate Dispute Resolution on its own account). Table of additional agreed Roles and Responsibilities in relation to the Commissioning Contract The Commissioners have agreed that the following additional roles, in relation to the each relevant Commissioning Contract, will be undertaken by individual Commissioners, as set out in this table: Table 1 Commissioner (Insert name of the CCG/ICB CCG against each of the identified roles) Identified role (Co-ordinating Commissioner or Commissioner) Additional responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Commissioning support agreements The roles and responsibilities agreed to be performed by any commissioning support organisation CSU in respect of the any Commissioning Contract are set out in the table below: Commissioning support organisation CSU (Insert name of each organisation CSU engaged, against each of the identified roles) Relevant Commissioner (Identify the Commissioner(s) responsible for engaging each organisationCSU) Commissioning support organisation CSU Roles and Responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Agreed variations to this Agreement [Insert details of the agreed variation] Schedule 6 Collaborative Costs and Resources3 [Insert any arrangements agreed under Xxxxxx 11] 1 This collaboration agreement is not suitable for use where a Local Authority is taking the role of lead or Co-ordinating Commissioner, or where parties are collaborating under a Section 75 Agreement. Where any commissioning functions are to be delegated by a CCG to a Local Authority, or vice versa, the parties should consider entering into a Section 75 Agreement 2 This section is drafted on the basis that each Co-ordinating Commissioner will carry out these pre-contract roles for their respective Commissioning Contract. Commissioners may need to amend this paragraph if it is agreed that a different Commissioner is to manage the pre-contract process 3 Where Commissioners decide to bear their own costs in relation to the Collaborative under Clause 11, this Schedule can be deletedprocess.

Management of the Commissioning Contract. 3.1 During the term of the Commissioning Contract, to carry out those functions, rights or obligations attributed to the Co-ordinating Commissioner under the Commissioning Contract (subject to clause 7), including: managing Activity, including notifying the provider of Activity Planning Assumptions, monitoring Activity and reviewing Activity Reports, dealing with Activity Queries and Activity Management Meetings, and agreeing Activity Management Plans; implementing any Prior Approval Scheme agreeing Service Development and Improvement Plans and/or Data Quality Improvement Plans with the provider; agreeing Service Variations; agreeing information and reporting requirements, and managing Information Breaches agreeing Local Prices, managing agreements or proposals for Local Variations and Local Modifications, making and receiving payments (where Commissioners’ payments under the Commissioning Contract are aggregated), including CQUIN payments; agreeing Local Quality Requirements and Local Incentive Scheme Indicators, and variations to National CQUINs as applicable; implementing financial adjustments or sanctions resulting from breaches of any provider obligations including those relating to Activity Management Plans, Data Quality Improvement Plans and Service Development and Improvement Plans; managing complaints; the appointment of an auditor conducting Review Meetings, and undertaking contract management, including the issuing and receipt of Contract Performance Notices and agreeing any Remedial Action Plan or related contract management processes; Reporting under the Commissioning Contract Disseminating to each Commissioner relevant information provided by the Provider in respect of the Commissioning Contract, including in relation to: Monthly Activity Reports; Service Quality Performance Reports; reconciliations of payment against actual Activity, including allocations against individual Commissioners in respect of Activity and payment; reports under any Data Quality Improvement Plan or Service Development and Improvement Plan; contract management provisions including Contract Query Notices and Remedial Action Plans; any financial adjustments or sanctions in respect of the Services; proposed Variations, and any other information received from the Provider in relation to that Commissioner, or reasonably required by any Commissioner in respect of its Services. Providing such other relevant information to Commissioners in relation to the Commissioning Contract as agreed by the Commissioners. Termination, suspension and disputes Implementing the following actions on behalf of the Commissioners: initiating suspension of the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, following a Suspension Event; serving notice to terminate the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, in accordance with the terms of the Commissioning Contract; and initiating and conducting Dispute Resolution (unless in any case an individual Commissioner elects to initiate Dispute Resolution on its own account). Table of additional agreed Roles and Responsibilities in relation to the Commissioning Contract The Commissioners have agreed that the following additional roles, in relation to the Commissioning Contract, will be undertaken by individual Commissioners, as set out in this table: Table 1 Commissioner (Insert name of the CCG/ICB CCG against each of the identified roles) Identified role (Co-ordinating Commissioner or Commissioner) Additional responsibilities Commissioning support agreements The roles and responsibilities agreed to be performed by any commissioning support organisation in respect of the Commissioning Contract are set out in the table below: Commissioning support organisation (Insert name of each organisation engaged, against each of the identified roles) Relevant Commissioner (Identify the Commissioner(s) responsible for engaging each organisation) Commissioning support organisation Roles and Responsibilities Agreed variations to this Agreement [Insert details of the agreed variation] Schedule 6 Collaborative Costs and Resources3 [Insert any arrangements agreed under Xxxxxx 11] 2 Commissioners may need to amend this paragraph if it is agreed that a different Commissioner is to manage the pre-contract process 3 Where Commissioners decide to bear their own costs in relation to the Collaborative under Clause 11, this Schedule can be deleted

Management of the Commissioning Contract. 3.1 During the term of the Commissioning Contract, to carry out those functions, rights or obligations attributed to the Co-ordinating Commissioner under the Commissioning Contract (subject to clause 7), including: managing Activity, including notifying the provider of Activity Planning Assumptions, monitoring Activity and reviewing Activity Reports, dealing with Activity Queries and Activity Management Meetings, and agreeing Activity Management Plans; implementing any Prior Approval Scheme agreeing Service Development and Improvement Plans and/or Data Quality Improvement Plans with the provider; agreeing Service Variations; agreeing information and reporting requirements, and managing Information Breaches agreeing Local Prices, managing agreements or proposals for Local Variations and Local Modifications, making and receiving payments (where Commissioners’ payments under the Commissioning Contract are aggregated), including CQUIN payments; agreeing Local Quality Requirements and Local Incentive Scheme Indicators, and variations to National CQUINs as applicable; implementing financial adjustments or sanctions resulting from breaches of any provider obligations including those relating to Activity Management Plans, Data Quality Improvement Plans and Service Development and Improvement Plans; managing complaints; the appointment of an auditor conducting Review Meetings, and undertaking contract management, including the issuing and receipt of Contract Performance Notices and agreeing any Remedial Action Plan or related contract management processes; Reporting under the Commissioning Contract Disseminating to each Commissioner relevant information provided by the Provider in respect of the Commissioning Contract, including in relation to: Monthly Activity Reports; Service Quality Performance Reports; reconciliations of payment against actual Activity, including allocations against individual Commissioners in respect of Activity and payment; reports under any Data Quality Improvement Plan or Service Development and Improvement Plan; contract management provisions including Contract Query Notices and Remedial Action Plans; any financial adjustments or sanctions in respect of the Services; proposed Variations, and any other information received from the Provider in relation to that Commissioner, or reasonably required by any Commissioner in respect of its Services. Providing such other relevant information to Commissioners in relation to the Commissioning Contract as agreed by the Commissioners. Termination, suspension and disputes Implementing the following actions on behalf of the Commissioners: initiating suspension of the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, following a Suspension Event; serving notice to terminate the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, in accordance with the terms of the Commissioning Contract; and initiating and conducting Dispute Resolution (unless in any case an individual Commissioner elects to initiate Dispute Resolution on its own account). Table of additional agreed Roles and Responsibilities in relation to the Commissioning Contract The Commissioners have agreed that the following additional roles, in relation to the each relevant Commissioning Contract, will be undertaken by individual Commissioners, as set out in this table: Table 1 Commissioner (Insert name of the CCG/ICB CCG against each of the identified roles) Identified role (Co-ordinating Commissioner or Commissioner) Additional responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Commissioning support agreements The roles and responsibilities agreed to be performed by any commissioning support organisation in respect of the any Commissioning Contract are set out in the table below: Commissioning support organisation (Insert name of each organisation engaged, against each of the identified roles) Relevant Commissioner (Identify the Commissioner(s) responsible for engaging each organisation) Commissioning support organisation Roles and Responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Agreed variations to this Agreement [Insert details of the agreed variation] Schedule 6 Collaborative Costs and Resources3 [Insert any arrangements agreed under Xxxxxx 11] 2 This section is drafted on the basis that each Co-ordinating Commissioner will carry out these pre-contract roles for their respective Commissioning Contract. Commissioners may need to amend this paragraph if it is agreed that a different Commissioner is to manage the pre-contract process 3 Where Commissioners decide to bear their own costs in relation to the Collaborative under Clause 11, this Schedule can be deletedprocess.

Management of the Commissioning Contract. 3.1 During the term of the Commissioning Contract, to carry out those functions, rights or obligations attributed to the Co-ordinating Commissioner under the Commissioning Contract (subject to clause 7), including: managing Activity, including notifying the provider of Activity Planning Assumptions, monitoring Activity and reviewing Activity Reports, dealing with Activity Queries and Activity Management Meetings, and agreeing Activity Management Plans; implementing any Prior Approval Scheme agreeing Service Development and Improvement Plans and/or Data Quality Improvement Plans with the provider; agreeing Service Variations; agreeing information and reporting requirements, and managing Information Breaches agreeing Local Prices, managing agreements or proposals for Local Variations and Local Modifications, making and receiving payments (where Commissioners’ payments under the Commissioning Contract are aggregated), including CQUIN payments; agreeing Local Quality Requirements and Local Quality Incentive Scheme Indicators, and variations to National CQUINs as applicable; implementing financial adjustments or sanctions resulting from breaches of any provider obligations including those relating to Activity Management Plans, Operational Standards, Data Quality Improvement Plans and Service Development and Quality Improvement Plans; managing complaints; the appointment of an auditor conducting Review Meetings, and undertaking contract management, including the issuing and receipt of Contract Performance Notices and agreeing any Remedial Action Plan or related contract management processes; Reporting under the Commissioning Contract Disseminating to each Commissioner relevant information provided by the Provider in respect of the Commissioning Contract, including in relation to: Monthly Activity Reports; Service Quality Performance Reports; reconciliations of payment against actual Activity, including allocations against individual Commissioners in respect of Activity and payment; reports under any Data Quality Improvement Plan or Service Development and Improvement Plan; contract management provisions including Contract Query Notices and Remedial Action Plans; any financial adjustments or sanctions in respect of the Services; proposed Variations, and any other information received from the Provider in relation to that Commissioner, or reasonably required by any Commissioner in respect of its Services. Providing such other relevant information to Commissioners in relation to the Commissioning Contract as agreed by the Commissioners. Termination, suspension and disputes Implementing the following actions on behalf of the Commissioners: initiating suspension of the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, following a Suspension Event; serving notice to terminate the Commissioning Contract, or any Service, in accordance with the terms of the Commissioning Contract; and initiating and conducting Dispute Resolution (unless in any case an individual Commissioner elects to initiate Dispute Resolution on its own account). Table of additional agreed Roles and Responsibilities in relation to the Commissioning Contract The Commissioners have agreed that the following additional roles, in relation to the each relevant Commissioning Contract, will be undertaken by individual Commissioners, as set out in this table: Table 1 Commissioner (Insert name of the CCG/ICB CCG against each of the identified roles) Identified role (Co-ordinating Commissioner or Commissioner) Additional responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Commissioning support agreements The roles and responsibilities agreed to be performed by any commissioning support organisation in respect of the any Commissioning Contract are set out in the table below: Commissioning support organisation (Insert name of each organisation engaged, against each of the identified roles) Relevant Commissioner (Identify the Commissioner(s) responsible for engaging each organisation) Commissioning support organisation Roles and Responsibilities Contract: [identify relevant Commissioning Contract] Contract: [insert additional roles and responsibilities for each other relevant Commissioning Contract] Agreed variations to this Agreement [Insert details of the agreed variation] Schedule 6 Collaborative Costs and Resources3 [Insert any arrangements agreed under Xxxxxx 11] 2 This section is drafted on the basis that each Co-ordinating Commissioner will carry out these pre-contract roles for their respective Commissioning Contract. Commissioners may need to amend this paragraph if it is agreed that a different Commissioner is to manage the pre-contract process 3 Where Commissioners decide to bear their own costs in relation to the Collaborative under Clause 11, this Schedule can be deletedprocess.